Seminar Series Fall 2014

A weekly seminar featuring guest speakers presenting cutting edge research in development economics.

Please note: All seminars will take place on Thursday afternoons from 3:15-4:45pm in ICC 550


Mushfiq Mobarak

Yale

4 September 2014

Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium



Guy Grossman

UPenn

11 September 2014

Information Technology and Political Engagement:
Mixed Experimental Evidence from Uganda



Asim Khwaja

Harvard

18 September 2014

Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of
Unconditional Grants to Private Schools



Rohini Pande

Harvard

2 October 2014

The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Experimental Evidence
and Structural Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India




Kaushik Basu

World Bank

23 October 2014

Randomisation, Causality and the Role of Reasoned Intuition




Franco Peracchi

Georgetown

6 November 2014

Growing up in wartime: Evidence from the era of two world wars



Craig McIntosh

UCSD

13 November 2014

Infrastructure Upgrading and Budgeting Spillovers: 
Mexico’s Habitat Experiment



Leonard Wantchekon

Princeton

20 November 2014

Policy Deliberation and Voting Behavior:
A Campaign Experiment in the Philippines



Lena Edlund

Columbia

4 December 2014

The Importance of Individual Consent in Marriage 
for Women’s Status and Economic Development